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It will be mostly cloudy throughout the night with scattered showers breaking out in places, some of these potentially still heavy at times and thundery.

It will be cooler, with lowest temperatures from 9C to 12C (48F to 54F).

A Met Office yellow warning for thunderstorms remains posted until 09:00 tomorrow, although most of the storms are expected to have moved east out of the county tonight.

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A family man who struck up lewd sexual conversation online with what he thought was a 13-year-old girl has been sentenced to a suspended jail term.

‪Carlisle Crown Court heard John Gibson, 42, of North Street, Carlisle, was actually engaged in exchanges with a decoy police officer, in which he also sent graphic images.

Gibson,who was arrested at work and has since lost his job with Sellafield, pleaded guilty to charges of attempted sexual communication with a child, attempting to cause a child to look at a sexual image, and attempting to incite a child to engage in sexual activity.

Judge Nicholas Barker said he believed there was a chance of rehabilitation and suspended a 16-month prison term for two years, adding 180 hours’ unpaid work and a three-month night-time curfew with orders to sign the sex offenders’ register for a decade and abide by a sexual harm prevention order for five years.

Some of the streets closed in Penrith to help pedestrians keep their distance from other shoppers, are to reopen, after talks between businesses and highways officials and the indications from ministers that 2m could under some circumstances be reduced to "1m plus".

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Middlegate and Devonshire Street will be reopened to all vehicles today, but restrictions will remain in place for all vehicles at the top of King Street because of the narrow pavements.

Cumbria County Councillor David Whipp, Chair of Eden Local Committee, said: "These updated measures should help ensure that our visitors are able to shop in our town safely and also enable the businesses to open and thrive.

Stephen Macauley, of Penrith Chamber of Trade and Commerce, welcomed the decision, saying: "We’d like to see business back to normal as soon as possible, encourage a return to the High Street and avoid any further roadblocks to recovery.”